GLM 5V Turbo
Multimodal model excelling at long-context video, image, and text analysis.
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Model page Updated 2026-06-22
About GLM 5V Turbo
GLM 5V Turbo was designed as a closed-weight multimodal system by Z.AI. Its architecture processes combined visual and textual streams across very long sequences. The large context window supports sustained coherence when handling extended multimodal content.
Key strengths include unified interpretation of video footage, static images, and accompanying text without public weight access. Z.AI maintains full control over updates and performance consistency through its proprietary approach. This setup benefits users who prioritize reliable API delivery over local customization.
Common applications involve video platform analysis, detailed cross-media document review, and narrative extraction from mixed inputs. Developers integrate it into workflows needing extended reasoning over diverse media types. It fits production environments where closed-source stability outweighs open-weight flexibility.
Capabilities
Multimodal understanding
Long-context reasoning
Video analysis
Image-text integration
Extended document processing
How GLM 5V Turbo compares
GLM 5V Turbo (striped bar) vs other multimodal on intelligence, speed and price.
Price
USD per 1M output tokens · Lower is better · GLM 5V Turbo ranks #88 of 157
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Sources: Artificial Analysis (intelligence, speed) · OpenRouter (price).
Best for
Long Video Analysis
The model processes extended video footage by combining visual frames with accompanying audio or text transcripts for detailed scene understanding.
Extended Multimodal Documents
It handles lengthy documents containing mixed text and images, supporting integrated reasoning across the full 202752-token context.
Complex Image-Text Reasoning
Users apply it to tasks requiring simultaneous interpretation of visuals and long textual narratives, such as research reports or illustrated guides.
Strengths & limitations
Strengths
- +Very large context window
- +Native video support
- +Unified image and text handling
Limitations
- –No audio modality
- –High compute cost at maximum context
- –Turbo variant may prioritize speed over depth
Cost calculator
Estimate what GLM 5V Turbo would cost for your usage.
$0.00320
per request
$32
estimated / month
Based on GLM 5V Turbo's $1.20/1M input · $4.00/1M output. Estimate only — actual cost varies by provider and caching.
Quick start
OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. Only the model slug changes between models.
JavaScript · openai
import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({
baseURL: "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
apiKey: process.env.OPENROUTER_API_KEY,
});
const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "z-ai/glm-5v-turbo",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello!" }],
});
console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);Model slug: z-ai/glm-5v-turbo
Editor's verdict
Our take on GLM 5V Turbo
GLM 5V Turbo is Z.AI's proprietary multimodal with a 203K-token context window.
At $4.00 per 1M output tokens, it is mid-priced for its class.
It is available through Z.AI's API and aggregators like OpenRouter.
Best suited to very large context window and native video support.
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The model provides a context window of 202752 tokens.
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